IS THE VATICAN CATHOLIC? # 2 OF 2

IS THE VATICAN CATHOLIC? # 2 OF 2 

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - BLOGGER. GEORGE KUBECK, MONDAY. FEB. 17, 2020

 

EXCLUSIVE: VATICAN BISHOP DEFENDS GIVING COMMUNION TO PRO-ABORTION ARGENTINE PRESIDENT AND MISTRESS by Diane Montagna

Rome, February 7, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) - Vatican bishop has defended giving Holy Communion to the pro-abortion president of Argentina and his mistress during their recent visit to the Vatican, saying it a a problem only for U.S. Catholics and Cardinal Raymond Burke.

 

The bishop accused this journalist of being a "fanatic" for challenging him on it. In comments to LifeSite on Feb. 6, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, vigorously argued that canon law "obliges" a priest to give Eucharist to openly pro-abortion politicians who present themselves for Communion. The Argentine prelate said that only someone who has formally

been excommunicated can be refused the Sacrament. [ This is completely new to me.]

 

"The [Argentine] president is not excommunicated, so I can give him Communion," Bishop Sorondo insisted. His pro-abortion policies have "nothing to do with it," he said. Other positions are only "the opinion of some bishops of your country," Bishop Sorondo told of this correspondent, singling out U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke.

 

Canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law states: Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest gave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion." ...

 

The Scandal:

On January 31, a video circulated on social media of Argentine president Alberto Fernandez, 61, and his mistress, Fabiola Yanez, 38, receiving Holy Communion at a Mass celebrated by Bishop Sorondo in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica. Following the Mass, Fernandez has a 45 minute meeting with Pope Francis during which the issue of abortion was reportedly not raised.

 

The new Argentine president has made the legalization of abortion one of his political priorities. At a presser following his meeting with the pope, Fernandez confirmed that he will not back down on legalizing abortion and said the proposed legislation will be sent to Parliament on March 1.

 

Fernandez divorced his wife in 2005, and has been living with 38-year-old actress Fabiola Yanez since 2014 (having lived with another woman for nearly 10 years). After his election in Dec. 2019, Yanez moved to the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires & acts as first lady despite their not being married....

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IN THE LIFE OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS AND ST. PADRE PIO, BISHOP SORONDO IS MISTAKEN; THE HOLY EUCHARIST IS ABSOLUTELY SACRED, AND WITHOUT A TOUCH OF SCANDAL.

 

"In the Dominican tradition to which St. Thomas belonged, ... Towards the end of his life, Friar Thomas was known to weep copiously during the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice. It was obvious that, young though he was (not yet 50), the Lord was ready to call him to Himself, to the eternal wedding feast. While Friar Thomas was offering Mass for the feast of St. Nicholas 745 years ago today, On Dec. 6, 1273, God revealed Himself to the saint in a vision that shattered his writing career and left him, for the remaining three months of his life, longing for the reality that had been disclosed to him. He had drunk so abundantly of the Lord's sweetness that he could say: "All that I have written seems like straw to me, compared with what I have seen." ...

 

    It was Jesus who, at the Last Supper, drawing nearer to us in His friendship than any earthly lovers could ever draw close to each other, changed bread and wine into His Body and Blood, in fulfillment of the promise he had made: He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life ... He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats will live because of me" (Jn. 6:54, 56-57)"

    The above two paragraphs came from Peter Kwasniewski, LifeSite, Blogs Catholic Church, Faith, Thu Dec 6, 2018 - "When St. Thomas Aquinas had a foretaste of Heaven on St. Nicholas' Feast Day."

George H. Kubeck